"What I don’t want to read in any artist’s statement is hyper-philosophizing about how the work connects to the grand schema of aesthetics and past art making. All thinking viewers of art, and artists as well, see these things as evident (or not) in any artist’s work. Rather, what I hope to read in an artist’s statement is how the artist dug down, threw stuff out, found a way that makes sense, or how they simply found a pathway to invention. I want to hear about experimentation, taking a chance and where that went and how anything was achieved.

These things I hope for myself as an art maker.

My work is seated in a moment. It can be large and maybe portentous, maybe pretentious? It is nearly always beautiful. You decide whether it has anything for you."

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Article in Hyperallergic about work (plus others) identified as Abstraction Like Fire